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Headword:
Skiapodes
Adler number: sigma,601
Translated headword: Shadyfeet, Skiapods
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Antiphon in the [treatise] On Concord [sc. mentions them].[1] They are a Libyan people. Ktesias in his Round Tour of Asia says: "and beyond them [are] the Shadyfeet, who have very broad feet like geese, and whenever it is hot lie on their backs, raise their legs, and shade themselves with their feet".[2]
Greek Original:Skiapodes: Antiphôn en tôi Peri homonoias. ethnos esti Libukon. Ktêsias en tôi Periplôi Asias phêsin: huper de toutôn Skiapodes, hoi tous te podas hôs chênes echousi karta plateas, kai hotan thermê êi, huptioi anapesontes, arantes ta skelê skiazontai tois posin.
Notes:
From Harpokration s.v.
See also
sigma 600 and
tau 399.
[1] Antiphon (the sophist) 87 F45 Diels-Kranz.
[2] Ktesias FGrH 688 F60.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 December 2000@07:35:50.
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